Occurrence data of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Zoological collection of National Museums of Kenya
Latest version published by National Museums of Kenya on Jun 7, 2018
A set of historical records of specimens of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) housed at the Zoological collection of National Museums of Kenya (NMK) in Nairobi is presented in a digitized format
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 3,216 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
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Data as a DwC-A file | download 3,216 records in English (35 KB) - Update frequency: unknown |
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Metadata as an EML file | download in English (13 KB) |
Metadata as an RTF file | download in English (8 KB) |
Versions
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How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Odanga J, Njoroge L, Fisher B, Monda L, Anale J, Peters M, Mwachala G, Obwang'i H, Mwangi E (2017): Occurrence data of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Zoological collection of National Museums of Kenya. v1.9. National Museums of Kenya. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt.museums.or.ke/ipt/resource?r=nmk_ants_data&v=1.9
Rights
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is National Museums of Kenya. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 63cccd67-894b-4901-aed2-8c05ad4ba390. National Museums of Kenya publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Kenya.
Keywords
Occurrence data; Ants; Formicidae; Kenya; Digitization; Specimen; Ants; Formicidae
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Geographic Coverage
Various localities within Kenya
Bounding Coordinates | South West [-4.82, 33.88], North East [5.06, 41.95] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
No Description available
Kingdom | Formicidae (Ants) |
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Project Data
A set of historical records of specimens of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) housed at the Zoological collection of National Museums of Kenya (NMK) in Nairobi is presented in a digitized format
Title | African Insect Atlas |
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Identifier | BID-AF2015-0134-REG |
Funding | GBIF/ EU |
Study Area Description | Various localities within Kenya |
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Additional Metadata
Alternative Identifiers | 63cccd67-894b-4901-aed2-8c05ad4ba390 |
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http://ipt.museums.or.ke/ipt/resource?r=nmk_ants_data |